Leonard-katherine Pacheco:  

Leonard ¿ Katherine¿s Abridged Reader¿s Digest Version of Life They say ¿Life is an Adventure¿ and I must say, my ¿adventure¿ has been quite an interesting journey as each of ours are.. Let me start by addressing my name: Leonard ¿ Katherine. As it probably suggests, I completely changed my Gender about 10 years ago to a female and legally changed my name to Katherine. Gender confusion is something people are born with (who would rationally decide to do this?) and has been with me since my earliest recollections (about the age of 5). It was a good move for me since I now feel much more complete as a person than ever before. It has been fascinating to have lived in ¿both camps¿ so to speak, and opens up your views on a wide range of topics and issues each gender takes for granted or doesn¿t understand. I¿ve become a bit of a ¿gender translator¿ with my close friends and family. I¿m very open to discuss this if anyone wants to know more about this area. Now for the rest of my journey: I moved to So California in my senior year of high school but always felt part of the SCHS Call of ¿67. After HS, I went on to get my Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering and then went on to do some graduate work in Physics and Engineering before deciding to go get my MBA (which I did in Seattle). While an engineer, I worked on a variety of Top Secret programs for the US, which I still can not discuss today. I designed computers is about as much as I can say I left Calif to get my MBA in Seattle 30+ years ago wh...Expand for more